China Box Office Thread | Deadpool & Wolverine- July 26

[Archerdude]

Hmm...

TF4 midnights only 20.5M yuan after all...480k admissions, still new all time record and nearly doubled TF3.

 LOL "ONLY"...that's the problem when you hype it up, without that earlier 40 Mil claim this would not have an "only" in front of it, more like a smashing, record breaking which it is.

[Olive]

I see many theaters dropped all holdovers and only screen TF4 and TBG.

[Fake]

20m is still a bit underwhelming considering the hype. 25m is what I was expecting.

 

I reckon around 160-170m OD.

[keysersoze123]

This is much better. I am hoping its it does not open more than 150M OD. it could be frontloaded considering how big the hype is.

[A Marvel Fanboy]

TMK did 128m without midnight, TF4 doing 150m od would be very bad considering it's TF.

[A Marvel Fanboy]

Desipte all those IMAX shows, average ticket price was just a bit over 42 yuan .... 

 

Early WOM is not encouraging. People are saying it will only get 9x multiplier from OD or so. (FI, 150m OD means just 13.5m total, falling short of Avatar in this case.)

[KATCH-2D2]

Desipte all those IMAX shows, average ticket price was just a bit over 42 yuan .... 

 

Early WOM is not encouraging. People are saying it will only get 9x multiplier from OD or so. (FI, 150m OD means just 13.5m total, falling short of Avatar in this case.)

This just make me mad and sad at the same time.

 

The film could be so much better without all the shameless product placements, unnecessary scenes that serve no purposes apart from showing off some random Chinese actors and without that Bing Bing girl who added nothing to the plot the movie would've been 20 mins shorter. They screwed up the movie to suck up to Chinese market and now you' tell me that people in China don't even like it???

 

Paramount decided to sacrifice global markets to please one but in the end they seem to please no one.

Edited June 27, 2014 by KATCH 22

[Fullbuster]

This just make me mad and sad at the same time.The film could be so much better without all the shameless product placements, unnecessary scenes that serve no purposes apart from showing off some random Chinese actors and without that Bing Bing girl who adds nothing to the plot the movie would've been 20 mins shorter. They screwed up the movie to suck up to Chinese market and now you' tell me that people in China don't even like it???Paramount decided to sacrifice global markets to please but in the end they seem to please no one.

People love American movies,and that's what they want,not a US movie with some Chinese mixture.I would be annoyed if they added some French mixture to breakthrough in France,that's not what I would want.

[KATCH-2D2]

People love American movies,and that's what they want,not a US movie with some Chinese mixture.I would be annoyed if they added some French mixture to breakthrough in France,that's not what I would want.

Especially when they shoe-horned those elements in and hope people would be too dumb to notice and be bothered by them.

 

And I really enjoyed the movie but it could have been so much better without all of those distractions that contribute to the longer than necessary runtime.

Edited June 27, 2014 by KATCH 22

[John Marston]

Studios need to realize that people don't like being pandered too . It's insulting

[alee7915]

This just make me mad and sad at the same time.

 

The film could be so much better without all the shameless product placements, unnecessary scenes that serve no purposes apart from showing off some random Chinese actors and without that Bing Bing girl who adds nothing to the plot the movie would've been 20 mins shorter. They screwed up the movie to suck up to Chinese market and now you' tell me that people in China don't even like it???

 

Paramount decided to sacrifice global markets to please but in the end they seem to please no one.

You know firedeep, if firedeep said early WOM is not encouraging, then it will be encouraging.  

What I have read from weibo(chinese version of twitter), a lot of people said the cinemas packed with a lot of people today.(they also took the pictures of the cinemas to show how busy's the cinemas) 

Also, T4 set new midnight record in China despite today is not holidays in China plus it was raining heavily in some parts of China last night, moviegoers still turned out and watched the film! 

Edited June 27, 2014 by A K A

[KATCH-2D2]

You know firedeep, if firedeep said early WOM is not encouraging, then it will be encouraging.

What I have read from weibo(chinese version of twitter), a lot of people said the cinema packed with a lot of people today.

You lost me there... He's the one who live there why shouldn't we believe him?

[A Marvel Fanboy]

Rating on Gewara dropped to 8.2 from yesterday's 8.7. TF3 still at 8.6.

[alee7915]

You lost me there... He's the one who live there why shouldn't we believe him?

You should read more his posts and you will know what I mean.  

[KATCH-2D2]

Rating on Gewara dropped to 8.2 from yesterday's 8.7. TF3 still at 8.6.

They should pull the movie from theatres and edit out all tedious scenes that only serve as love letters to Chinese market and re-release the 130 mins version of the movie instead, now that all the effort to kiss Chinese audient asses surely isn't working.

[alee7915]

They should pull the movie from theatres and edit out all tedious scenes that only serve as love letters to Chinese market and re-release the 130 mins version of the movie instead, now that all the effort to kiss Chinese audient asses surely isn't working.

 

It doesn't matter about the rating for this film in China.   Kids in China really love Transformers(as long as the transformers keep moving, fighting etc. in the film, the kids will love it!)  Therefore, parents in China will bring their kids to cinema this weekends!

Edited June 27, 2014 by A K A

[Bob Violence]

Studios need to realize that people don't like being pandered too . It's insulting

 

Stuff like this has at least as much to do with pandering to Chinese regulators as with pandering to Chinese audiences. Probably moreso.

[baumer]

You lost me there... He's the one who live there why shouldn't we believe him?

Because hes been calling fot T4 failure since the beginning. And its not impressive? That would be like saying that the new Star Wars movie only opening to 220 million dollars opening weekend is very disappointing because it's a Star Wars movie. Are you out of your minds? how do you call something disappointing when it smashes a record? Some of you people really need to give your head a shake.

[snitch]

Don't know if it was already posted 

 

A jilted Chinese man spent $40,000 to book four entire IMAX cinemas for first-day showings of the latest "Transformers" movie Friday to prove his ex-girlfriend was wrong when she dumped him for being poor seven years ago, he said.

"Hu Xiaoyun: I was so poor when we were in our fourth year at college in 2007 that I could not afford just two film tickets," the man said in a posting on China's Twitter-like Sina Weibo.

"You said when you left for Beijing that I will always be that way.

"I have been working hard for the past seven years because of that sentence and today I spent half my monthly income to book all the seats in Beijing's IMAX cinemas on June 27.

"I just want to say maybe your choice back then was wrong."

As evidence he posted the contract with a booking agency and three receipts totalling 250,000 yuan ($40,000).

The man has only been identified in Chinese media reports by his surname Wang.

Using the online handle Chicken Run 1234 and a profile image as a Na'vi warrior from the 2009 Hollywood blockbuster Avatar, he called on Internet users to spread the message "until she sees it" and promised to reward reposters with free tickets.

They quickly ran out, and his message had been reposted more than 110,000 times by Friday.

Previous "Transformers" movies were box-office hits in China and midnight showings of the fourth instalment "Age of Extinction" took 40 million yuan in the early hours of Friday, a new national record, according to Chinese media reports.

The man said separately that his old flame had contacted him by phone. Both had put the feud behind them, he indicated, but there was no hope of rekindling their relationship.

"I promised her when we first met that if she left one day, I would make the whole world know I was looking for her," he said.

[baumer]

Btw...DH2s midnight record is not impressive considering how hyped it was.